Oh October. You’re
back again. I always know you’re coming,
and yet, you seem to sneak up on me every year.
My what we’ve been through…
I once talked about having a band. Not because I had talent to have a band. But just because I wanted to call it “October
Skies”. (oh yeah right, y'all didn't ever want a band?) Because milestone are measured
by things that happen in our lives.
Things that change the way we live.
And it seems like all my milestones happen in … October.
It was in October my parents were born, which… definitely
signifies the greater things in life because then they met, married, and had ME
of course…
It was in October my sister married her high school
sweetheart. (this didn’t change me, I was still kind of a brat back then)
October 7th (*cough) was when I drove
into California for the first time to start an adventure of a lifetime.
October marked Planet Hope’s annual Camp for battered and
abused women and children, the nonprofit I worked for while in Los Angeles for
five years. The people I give credit to
opening my eyes to bigger, better, and greater things in the world.
October hurt me in 2009, as I found out I’d be forced to
leave a company I unwillingly gave everything to.
And, yet, it was that same October that became a blessing in
disguise.
And as the next October would have it, to the date on the 7th,
I finally made the decision to leave a world behind me. To pack up what was left of me, and cross a
bridge I so desperately needed to cross and headed out of Los Angeles for good.
October of 2010 would bring me to Nashville, change my
heart, break my heart, heal my heart and burden my heart of everything that was
to come in the next two years.
God gave me a vision stronger than I’ve ever felt when he
gave me October of that year.
October 2011, He quietly planted a seed in my heart, when
He mentioned me living somewhere I’d never been before.
And again, October 7th of 2012 rolled around, and
I ran my first marathon.
You see… October has a special place in my heart. It always has. And here, in 2013, my October brings me
Africa. It brings me, yet again, new
life. New opportunity. A new heart, new blessings, opened eyes.
Today. October 7th. As I walk to a school to bring creativity to kids who don’t think their world is as bright, who don’t think there’s much out there. Who haven’t had a chance at more, a chance to
dream.
Maybe today, will be the start to their October…
Maybe today, will be the start to their October…
I didn't get a band.... No. But I still got my October Skies...
